- Artist
- Richard Long CBE born 1945
- Medium
- Photograph, black and white, on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 229 × 229 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1976
- Reference
- P07150
Display caption
Long finished this work in Bristol in his second year on the Advanced Course. He cut the soil, removing the turf segments and configured its formal arrangement before making a photographic record. The cut turf was then relayed so that the segments would grow back into the earth.Critics have noted a connection between Long’s arrangement of the turf and the basic geometric shapes that characterised the formalist work of tutors such as Anthony Caro. Long has refuted this view by explaining the significance of the archetypal natural forms and the ephemerality of this intervention.
Gallery label, May 2007
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